Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Littera scripta manet – ‘The written word will remain’. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

I’m crepuscular.

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

I like surprises.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.